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Obelisk of Hatshepsut
Not long after her consort Thutmose II died, leaving the throne to his young son Thutmose III, Hatshepsut declared herself “king”. According to Egyptologist James Henry Breasted, she is also known as “the first great woman in history of whom we are informed”.
She erected twin obelisks at Karnak, at the time the tallest in the world, erected at the entrance to the temple of Amun-Re at Karnak. This obelisk still stands, as the tallest surviving ancient obelisk on Earth; the other has broken in two and toppled. The official in charge of those obelisks was the high steward Amenhotep.
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Khafre Enthroned
This perfectly modeled and well-polished life-size statue depicts king Khafra, the builder of the second largest pyramid at Giza. It was found in a pit in the antechamber of his Valley Temple at Giza. The king is seated on a throne flanked by lion heads. The two sides of the throne are decorated with the sema-tawy, symbol of the unity of Upper and Lower Egypt.
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house of 1000 corpses (2003)
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On this day, 9 January 1945, biochemist and Black radical Altheia Jones-LeCointe was born in Trinidad. Later moving to Britain, in the 1970s, Altheia was a leading activist in the British Black Panthers, and was one of the people arrested and acquitted in the racist trial of the Mangrove 9. Nine Black people were charged with 39 offences following a police raid of the Mangrove Caribbean restaurant in London’s Notting Hill, which was undertaken in order to disrupt Black anti-racist organising efforts. Jones-LeCointe along with her co-defendant Darcus Howe represented themselves during the 55 day trial, which ended with the first official acknowledgement that British police targeted Black people due to “racial hatred”, in the judge’s closing statement.
These events have just been featured in the recent film, Mangrove by Steve McQueen, in which Jones-LeCointe was played by Letitia Wright.
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The Last Witch of Fairfield by Sebastián Fiumara and Dave Stewart (2017)
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